I stopped at a yardsale yesterday to look for treasures and found one .
An early savage 99 in .303 , appearance wise and mechanically it's in very nice condition .
But the bore isn't so good , it's bright and almost shiny , however the
Rifling is just plain wore out .
I don't have a bore scope to get a real good look at things , at the muzzle the rifling is just a bare trace . With a light I can make out a little better rifling further down but it could just be wishful thinking on my part .
The older fellow who owned it is also a cast bullet shooter and freely admitted he had tried just about every cast bullet you can think of in it and was never able to get it to shoot . He never tried any jacketed bullets in it though.
The price was right on it @ $400. So even if it won't shoot jacketed bullets either I am still in the win column with the low serial number , rifle lenght barrel and very good condition it'll make a very pretty wall hanger .
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